Advantages of UEFI (Windows 10)?

PerfectBlue · 23 Jul 2016

I've been having some trouble with a clean install of Windows 10 done using the Bios route, and I'm considering doing a clean install on a brand new SSD to overcome any mistakes that I made the first time round, and I have two questions:

1) What are the advantages of performing the install as UEFI, as opposed to bios
2) How do I check if my motherboard supports UEFI\the correct version of UEFI (It's a Z87-HD3).

cereberus · 23 Jul 2016

Uefi is better if you can do it for several main reasons:

1) you can have more than four primary partitions (handy when dual booting)

2) support for large drive over 2TB if used as OS drive

3) secure boot - reduces risk of some types of malware.

Re. mobo compatibility - check vendor site.

brummyfan · 23 Jul 2016

PerfectBlue said:

I've been having some trouble with a clean install of Windows 10 done using the Bios route, and I'm considering doing a clean install on a brand new SSD to overcome any mistakes that I made the first time round, and I have two questions:

1) What are the advantages of performing the install as UEFI, as opposed to bios
2) How do I check if my motherboard supports UEFI\the correct version of UEFI (It's a Z87-HD3).

Your MB supports UEFI.
GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1150 - GA-Z87-HD3 (rev. 1.x)